Population dynamics of American horseshoe crabs-historic climatic events and recent anthropogenic pressures

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 3088-3100

  Faurby, SØren ^a   King, Tim L ^b   Obst, Matthias ^c   Hallerman, Eric M ^d   Pertoldi, Cino ^a   Funch, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Limulus; Over harvest; Population decline; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; LIMULUS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; HORSESHOE CRAB;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HORSESHOE CRABS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANGUILLA ROSTRATA; ANIMALIA; BUSYCON; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 77954850129     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04732.x     Document Type: Article

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